gaming Video game obsession

[Dark Fox 151]

Does anyone here have a particular game they obsess over, as in to the point where you play it over and over no matter how outdated it becomes, or play it over and over in order to have a "perfect game"...

 

For me, Fallout 3, I've played this game since it came out in 09, I have yet to beat it, I'm obsessed with creating a perfect character, getting all unique items, pretty much a crazy challenge, I have reset my entire game at least 10 times, with 60+ hours invested into those saves merely over small mistakes, such as failing a side quest or having a minor character die when it wasn't necessary to the story.

 

I have a copy of the original prima guide, and recently got the game of the year guide off amazon so I have a guide for the DLC...Every time I play the game over again I assure myself this time It's gonna be perfect and it usually ends bad, so I created spreadsheets and look at the fallout wikis obsessively to ensure I don't make a mistake.

 

It hurts, but I love the game so much, mostly because it's massive in scale, and you can actually have a perfect character, unlike in New vegas...which I doubt ill ever play since I dont see myself finishing Fallout  anytime soon.

 

Also, if you're interested, find me a way to send my excel spreadsheets and you can have them, one contains my idea of the idea character, and one is a simple checklist for the games items.

 

Does anyone have a worse obsession? video game wise of course.

[Evilshy 5,091]

Dear God, that's horrible. Putting so much time into the weakest game of the series that you miss out on the rest of it?

(note: Just because it's the weakest doesn't mean it's not good, because FO3 is great).

 

 

I do similar things with Fire Emblem. The fact that it has permadeath, a finite amount of exp (unless you abuse arenas/certain bosses with health regen), and is completely linear (you can't ever go back to previous areas) means it's easy to screw up if you don't know what you're doing, especially on Hector Hard Mode and all its glorious strategic difficulty

I'm replaying it right now, and breezing through Lyn's story. HHM awaits...

[ParsoOfEquestria 1,490]

mine is Postal 2, I'm always inventing new ways to torture people before i execute them :3 and, well, the violence and dark humour just doesnt ever get old

[Koori 156]

For someone who plays games nearly all the time that question is very hard to answer. Any game that has free world exploration such as Fallout, some Need for Speeds and Final Fantasy (X-2). All those would fit as an answer for me.

 

So what would my answer be? ... ...

 

I guess my answer would be Mass Effect trilogy. I want to play it on all classes, on all difficulties (with at least one class) and on such that I create the perfect ending (if you can actually call any of the endings like that), meaning that I can choose all paragon answers.

 

At the moment I've played only one class throughout the whole trilogy and that's Soldier on the easiest difficulty. Long way to go.

[Schism 26]

The Metal Gear Solid series. I have played these games over and over again, and I've never grown tired of them. My biggest gaming obsession though, is Metal Gear Solid 3. I still find it amusing just to find different ways to screw around with the patrolling soldier's AI.

[Soundgarden 2,758]

This sounds like the case of more or less all classic NES games. I have played through Super Mario bros 3 and the Mega Man series countless ammount of times

 

A more modern example would be World of Warcraft, I have this odd need of lvling up a character in every class and just grind and raid the same thing over and over again

Edited February 25, 2013 by Soundgarden

[Totally Ducklett 181]

Halo 3... I keep playing it.. even though its a few years old... I can't stop! XD But hey, it's a good game. I like halo 4 better now, but i'm not abandoning 3!

[Sunset Spark 60]

In the earlier days of my gaming history.

 

Digimon Rumble Arena. (my first Ps1. massive addiction to this game) [1-2 years]

 

MapleStory (I regret wasting my time and money on this all those years ago) [2-3 years]

 

GunZ (I wish I could play this again, but it's fueled too much of my hate and despair simply by playing it)  [4-6 years]

[Discorded Bluenote 126]

In my earliest days of portable gaming, it happened. My Cousin was moving, so he gave me Pokémon Mystery Dungeon : Explorers of Darkness.

 

It is one of my favorite games.

 

I feel really stupid for selling it.

 

So I got Explorers of Time a few weeks ago.

 

I will never let go of that game, even with my life.

[Quiles 77]

Ratchet and Clank 3. I spent so much time trying to get all of the guns in that game to max level over and over again. I think I must have played through the game over 20 times by the time I finally set it down for good

[Scootalove 10,689]

I'm having the same problem with Black Ops II ©. But, the reason I can't stop is to only get some guns in diamond and get to master prestige. I'll try to snap myself out of it.

[Betez 1,734]

Super Metroid and Donkey Kong Country. Those games never get old. In SM, there's so much area to explore, half the fun is seeing how many items you can find.

 

DKC I love because it was one of the first video games I ever played. I have good memories of it. I could play it any day.

[Pony Joe 583]

The first few weeks after I bought Skyrim, I would play it for hours on end each and every day, but I eventually lost interest.  Same story with Team Fortress 2 and Super Smash Bros Brawl.

 

Probably my greatest obsession, one which spanned months on end, was with Minecraft.  I built so many houses, looted so many caverns, and spent so many hours designing complex strip mining methods it's ridiculous.  And this was in Alpha!  Even before hunger, leveling, generated structures, enchantments, potions, and bosses, it kept me occupied like nothing else.  I don't play much nowadays, but when first discovering the game and getting to know the strategy involved was one of the best gaming experiences of my life.

Edited February 26, 2013 by Pony Joe

[Reani 176]

Team Fortress 2!!!!! I absolutely love this game. So much stuff you can do, so many mods, so many hats. Got sick of killing others? Kill robots with your friends! Got bored of killing robots? Play dogdeball, hide and seek, or even go parkouring! This game is amazing and I absolutely love it.

[uuunph 288]

Dude, I know just how that feels. I did the same thing with Fallout 3, but not nearly as much. With Oblivion however, I made so many other characters, starting new characters because I wanted a different build or was using different mods. The first thing I'd usually do is try to become a Mages Guild Apprentice because spellmaking is very useful. I did those quests over, and over, and over again, and they're so damn boring now.

 

It really sucks.

[rainbowbrony566 0]

Same with me on Gears of war. Hate it the Gears 2 and 3 mutilplayer. Loved Gears 1 multiplayer. Just mostly play horde  on 2 and 3. To me hopefully Judement would be good.

[DoctorWhovian1902 596]

Minecraft. Where I come from, a lot of kids are into it, mainly due to it's Xbox 360 release. But guess who liked it back when it was still in beta?

 

I've managed to get a friend of mine into it, too, and MLP is the next stop. I'm already getting somewhere.

[Алексей 110]

Fallout: New Vegas.

 

I've purchased the game about 3 times in total(twice for the Xbox, since my Xbox's disc drive scratched my first copy, then another on Steam for 12 dollars with all the DLC), and all of the DLC twice(once on PC with the Ultimate Edition, and as they came out for Xbox).

 

Every time a new DLC came out for it, I pulled an all-nighter to download it and play it as it came out. And, they all came out at around 3 AM over here in Pacific Time, so, yeah.

 

And, of course, I have a LOT of hours put into the game. I played it every day for at least a few hours for about a year, which, along with my playing it on PC a lot in 2012 and playing it every once in a while now resulted in 1k+ hours on 2 characters alone, and most of that was played on vanilla. And, of course, that is not counting the many other characters I made for achievement hunting, playing through every single quest, and sheer boredom.

 

And, I've went ahead and purchased the New Vegas collector's card deck and a replica Platinum Chip of the Internet.

 

I'd say I am fairly obsessed with NV.

 

And, of course, I've played the hell out of quite a few other games (Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic 1 and 2, Skyrim, Minecraft, ArmA 2, etc. etc.), but I don't think any of those quite measure up to what I've put into New Vegas. :I

[Celtore 2,770]

The Phoenix Wright Ace Attorney series. Nothing ever changes and I know the plot of every case like the back of my hand. I just love the characters, the music and the epicness in the court scenes. I'm playing through Trials and Tribulations case 5 again and it just doesn't get old!

[Jessper 735]

Well, I have many old games I treasure and adore, such as Baldurs Gate and the less known cousin, Icewind Dale, Fallouts up to Fallout Tactics.

 

But from the recent history, it's probably Skyrim, mainly thanks to mod. There is always something you can change or tweak, or find something someone else did. I wonder if I'll ever manage to tweak it enough so I can say "And now I can die happy.".

[Dark Fox 151]

Dude, I know just how that feels. I did the same thing with Fallout 3, but not nearly as much. With Oblivion however, I made so many other characters, starting new characters because I wanted a different build or was using different mods. The first thing I'd usually do is try to become a Mages Guild Apprentice because spellmaking is very useful. I did those quests over, and over, and over again, and they're so damn boring now.

 

It really sucks.

 

I am slightly less obsessive with oblivion, I mean, the leveling is the most obsessive part about it for me...But quest wise, item wise, and location wise their isn't a lot to mess up on. This is it pretty much http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Oblivion:Efficient_Leveling

 

And the thing is, in oblivion you can just use a few exploits to level up certain skills super fast without having to do that many quests...In Fallout it's required, which makes it easy to fuck up, in oblivion you can max out your character, max stats, max attributes without doing much, then just save your game and restart from that point if you mess up.

[Delirium 208]

I've recently gotten obsessed with XCOM: Enemy unknown

 

I keep playing it naming my soldiers after my best friends or favorite characters from a TV show/Movie ( I name my soldiers after the mane 6 xD ) and then watch them kick alien ass! but then they get killed in a mission...... then video game depression comes 

 

Me and other people have shared stories of epic battles our soldiers have been in or how one of our soldiers died but he took out this many aliens with him it's moments like these that make me love XCOM and keep coming back

Edited February 26, 2013 by Gamer Brony

[♫♪Tammihiiri♪♫ 0]

World of Warcraft. Have played it 7 years now and i haven't got bored with it. There is just so much to do and now you can even POKÉFIGHT! HOW COOL IS THAT!

[Ron J 276]

Here's a list of the games I'm obsessed with:

Team Fortress 2

Battlefield: Bad Company 2

Half-Life

Half-Life OP4

Black Mesa

Counter-strike: Source

Left 4 Dead 1

Terraria

Modern Warfare 2

And if the old-school RS servers will be released free to play, I'm adding that to the list as well.

Edited February 26, 2013 by Uζεrηλmξ

[Haven Celestii 9,385]

Hmmm, I don't think I really have one game I obsess over in such a way. I really love Gears 3 and can sit and play its multiplayer all day, however, I also love Pokemon to the point of making teams on a game that doesn't even have online capabilities and getting 500 hours in that one game alone. Then there's the Megaman battle network games, number 4 (Red Sun) to be specific. I've only beaten it 5 times due to my handheld gaming time decreasing severely, but if it hadn't I know I'd still be playing and beating it.

Fallout 3 was one of my faves, but never to the point of trying to be perfect in it. Just playing for days on end.

Oh, and I can't forget Runescape. Even with how shitty it is I can't leave it alone. Only 5 years put into it, but goodness I love it.

Yeah, I dont think I have one set game that I obsess over.

Edited February 26, 2013 by Umbreon